To:J. V. STALIN FOR THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C. SECRETARIAT

Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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ComradeStalin:

Pleasepass on for decision by the C.C. Secretariat (or
the Orgbureau; I do not know whose competence this is)
the following petition of mine:

tosend the surgeon, V. N. Rozanov, physician of the
Soldatenkovskaya Hospital, for leavein Riga in July,
togetherwith his son.

Thisis the request I had from V. N. Rozanov, who has
not charged me any fees now, as he had not done in 1918,
although he has been to see me repeatedly. Comrade
Semashko says that he is the best surgeon, but has little
rest.

Thisis why I request; that he should be granted this
holiday, and ask that a secretary should be assigned to
inform me of the decision of the Orgbureau or theC.C.Secretariat.[1]

21/IV.1922.Lenin

[1]OnMay 23, 1922, the Secretariat of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee decided to meet Lenin’s request to send surgeon V. N.
Rozanov and his son for a holiday in Riga. Rozanov later recalled
this in his reminiscences of Lenin (seeVospominaniya o V. I.
Lenine, Part 2, Moscow, 1957, pp. 406–07).